three feet away

On the day of the class reunion in the fifth class after the year, Xu Nuo had already resumed make-up classes. When Zhang Qiming led Zhu Yuan and Xiao Jing outside the classroom in the afternoon, she was standing on the podium to help students preview the new semester's courses.

Xia Xia was the first to notice a few people standing outside the window. Zhang Qiming's appearance obviously disrupted her study rhythm. On the podium, when she knocked on the podium to remind her, she caught a glimpse of a few familiar faces standing in the corridor looking at her with half-smiles. All three of them were standing in the back row of the classroom where they had promised to sit. Near the back door, I looked in from the small square window next to the promised seat. Under the old curtains, the faces of several people could not even be fully seen, and the appearance of being crowded in the window was a bit funny.

Xu Nuo couldn't explain how she felt when she saw the three of them. The feeling of being separated from another world made her feel at ease for a moment, which was hard to describe.She still remembers that at the graduation party, she planned in her heart that she would not have any relationship with the people in the fifth class, including Xiao Jing, but when her face as before appeared in the window, she suddenly lost the original resentment, as if she was indifferent everything.

After class, Xu Nuo walked out of the classroom, and while flicking off the chalk dust from the cuffs of his coat, he smiled generously at the three smiling people standing by the corridor by the back door: "Why are you here?"

"You are not mean enough, promise, after graduation, you will really not contact anyone, right?" Zhu Yuan has changed a lot in half a year of college life, lost a lot of weight, and looks a lot more energetic. He is wearing a thin down jacket Standing on the balcony, holding a cup of milk tea in his hand, when Xu Nuo approached, he handed it to her naturally, just like when he was studying, with skillful movements like he had repeated countless times in the past six months.

Xu Nuo lowered his eyebrows, glanced at the bag in his hand, took a deep breath, then raised his head to take it over and smiled at him and said, "Thank you."

Zhu Yuan shrugged, cast a puzzled look at Zhang Qiming speechlessly, and asked, "When did this girl learn to say thank you to me?"

"Is something wrong?"

Zhang Qiming hugged his chest and glanced back at Zhu Yuan, a bright smile appeared on Jun Lang's face.

"It's not wrong, it's just that I haven't seen you for so long, so suddenly I feel that I owe something, but I can't explain exactly what I owe at the moment." Zhu Yuan rubbed his head and twisted his head. She frowned, thought for a few seconds but didn't understand, she simply raised her hand and put her arm on the shoulder of Xiao Jing who had been standing on her left, who had been silent, and twitched her fingers indifferently:

"What do you think, daughter-in-law? Something is missing from Nuonuo, right?"

Xiao Jing, who had been standing by the side without speaking, was hugged by Zhu Yuan, looked at Xu Nuo with an unnatural expression, hummed, and didn't say much.

Xu Nuo heard Zhu Yuan's words very clearly, and hooked the corners of his lips.

"Let's go, take a walk, and then go have dinner together." Zhang Qiming pushed Zhu Yuan's shoulder and pointed downstairs.

"Ah."

"Zhang Qiming."

As soon as the four of them walked into the stairwell, there was a rush of footsteps behind them, followed by Xia Xia's anxious voice.

Several people turned their heads when they heard the sound, Zhang Qiming looked up at Xia Xia with a blank face, hesitated for a while and asked, "You... looking for me?"

Xia Xia looked like a little girl holding her schoolbag, her ears were slightly red, and she nodded fiercely: "I... yes!"

Zhang Qiming looked back at Xu Nuo, his expression became a little embarrassed, he raised his hand and touched his ears: "You, what's the matter?"

"That...senior..." Xia Xia took two steps forward and went down to the first step of the stairs, and asked tentatively, "Can I hold you up for a few minutes, I want to have a word with you."

"Oh~"

As soon as Zhu Yuan heard this, he knew something was going on, but he didn't expect that Zhang Qiming didn't even attend the third year of high school, but there was still a little girl thinking about him, so he couldn't help joking.

"Yes Zhang Qiming, when did you meet such a beautiful primary school girl?"

"Don't talk nonsense." Zhang Qiming's face darkened, and he glanced at Xu Nuo's face.

"We'll go downstairs and wait for you." Xu Nuo glanced at Xia Xia, turned to Zhang Qiming, and then led Zhu Yuan and Xiao Jing downstairs first.

Zhang Qiming stared at the few people going downstairs, opened his mouth, wanted to say something, turned his gaze to Xia Xia, hesitated for a second, then went upstairs with a sigh.

"Xu Nuo, who was that?" Zhu Yuan and Xiao Jing followed Xu Nuo down the stairs side by side, staring at her back and asking.

"A student in the cram school." Xu Nuo replied as he walked to the classroom next to the stairs on the first floor, stood at the door of the classroom and looked in, Zhou Qingming and the other two persons in charge had temporary offices here.

"What are you looking at?"

Zhu Yuan followed, stood beside her and poked his head inward, "Isn't get out of class over? You have to tell the leader before you can leave?"

Zhou Qingming, who was sorting out the materials, listened to the voice, looked up at the door, saw Xu Nuo, and unconsciously showed a smile on her face. She nodded politely to Zhu Yuan and Xiao Jing, and then said to Xu Nuo: " Is class over yet? The cram school is almost over, and I'm counting the hours of the teachers. Would you like to come in and wait for me?"

Xu Nuo listened and walked in without saying a word.

Zhu Yuan was ignored the whole time, smacked his mouth in embarrassment, leaned on the doorframe and spread his hands towards Xiao Jing behind him, muttering in a tone of resignation: "I thought she had changed, but she was still the same as before. , habitually ignoring people."

Xiao Jing turned her eyes away from Xu Nuo, and pointed Zhu Yuan to look at Zhou Qingming with her eyes, and asked, "Do you know that person?"

Zhu Yuan turned around, looked carefully at Zhou Qingming's side face, and sighed: "Don't tell me, the girls who are close to Xu Nuo are pretty pretty, look at the old sister Yan, This one now..." The unfinished words stuck in his throat, Zhu Yuan choked and turned his head to stare at Xiao Jing, and after a while he asked Xiao Jing in a low voice with a calm expression:

"But, this person. Who is it, her...girlfriend?"

Xiao Jing shook her head and looked towards Xu Nuo with a dazed expression.

Xu Nuo stood still next to Zhou Qingming, picked up the class timetable at her hand, and prepared to help her calculate. When she lowered her head, she looked up at the door of the classroom, and her eyes collided with Xiao Jing in the air. Xiao Jing's eyes met hers. It became brighter in an instant, Xu Nuo returned her calm expression, then turned her head and said to Zhu Yuan: "Come in and sit down, Zhang Qiming will go downstairs."

Zhu Yuan shook his head, and dragged Xiao Jing down the corridor: "No, I don't want to go into the high school classroom again. Once I enter, I will feel bored and panic. We will wait for you in the small garden."

Xu Nuo nodded and said nothing.

After Zhu Yuan and Xiao Jing walked away, Zhou Qingming raised his head and asked Xu Nuo: "Are they your classmates?"

"Well, the boy is my deskmate, and the girl is the representative of the biology class." Xu Nuo stared blankly at the timetable in front of him, counting the time silently.

Zhou Qingming had never heard Xu Nuo mention her high school classmates. When it comes to the relationship between classmates, Xu Nuo has always been relatively indifferent. She didn't understand Xu Nuo's high school life. Gossip, occasionally heard that there is a boy named Zhang Qiming who likes her like a demon, she is a little unsure whether Zhang Qiming is the one outside...

"Oh, I'll just take the textbooks back to you when I'm done working. You can accompany them."

Xu Nuo listened, and finally lifted his eyes from the timetable to Zhou Qingming's sad face, looked into her eyes, slightly bent the corners of his lips, and stretched out his hand to pick up a strand of hair near her ear He smiled and asked her, "Aren't you going together?"

After Zhou Qingming listened to the words, his expression relaxed, his eyes became expectant and at the same time he asked tentatively: "Is it possible?"

Seeing the changes on her face, Xu Nuo couldn't help but feel a little sour in her heart. She sighed, and her eyes slid past the other two people in the classroom. After making sure that no one was paying attention, she reached out and touched her face, smiling. Nodding to her, she said with pity: "I came to see you just to show you to them."

It was probably because Xu Nuo's eyes and tone were too gentle when he said this, Zhou Qingming looked into her eyes, and his eyes turned red unconsciously.

The ball of her thumb slipped past the corner of Zhou Qingming's eyes, Xu Nuo bent down, leaned slowly in front of her, bent her fingers, rubbed her temples lightly and said nothing.

"Is there anything dirty?" Zhong Qingming asked with his head tilted as he felt embarrassed when she saw her.

Xu Nuo stared at her reddened ears, and suddenly remembered the heartbroken crying in her ears that night when she had a fever, and her heart ached. She blinked, shook her head and chuckled: "It's nothing."

"Promise."

Zhang Qiming went downstairs, came down to the door of the classroom at Zhu Yuan's signal, looked in, his eyes were sad, he coughed lightly before Xia Xia entered the classroom, and then called Xu Xu's name into the classroom.

Xu Nuo immediately looked up, only looking at the back of Zhang Qiming who turned around.Xia Xia came here with three jumps, blinked at Xu Nuo while jumping, and asked strangely:

"Teacher Xu, you have something to do with our sister Qingming?"

Glancing at Xia Xia, Xu Nuo replied solemnly: "Well, there is something to do."

Xia Xia obviously didn't expect Xu Nuo to answer her question in such a serious manner without a red face or a beating heart. This person is still the same as before, very boring. She pursed her mouth and turned her eyes to Zhou Qingming's face , found that she had a somewhat evasive expression, and immediately had a newly discovered half-smile and asked Zhou Qingming ambiguously: "What's the matter, sister Qingming? Can I listen?"

"It's nothing..." Zhou Qingming raised his head, his blushing face turned red after Xia Xia made such a fuss, and then looked at Xu Nuo, with a blank expression on his face, as calm as if those jokes had nothing to do with her, Such a scene inevitably made her feel a little sad, she took a breath, smiled reluctantly and asked Xia Xia what she was doing.

This time it was Xia Xia's turn to stammer, and unconsciously glanced at the playground outside the classroom, Xia Xia waved her hands and said, "It's okay, I just don't want to go home after class, you don't mind me, if you have something to do, leave. "

Xu Nuo let out a snort, put down the class timetable in his hand, reached out to take the materials in Zhou Qingming's hand and put it down, pulled her up, and said to Xia Xia while helping her carry her backpack: "That's fine, we Go to dinner, you play slowly."

Xia Xia was stunned for a moment when she was told this, and stared at Xu Nuo resentfully and stopped talking.

Zhou Qingming was a little confused by the conversation between the two, so he could only smile at Xia Xia, and was dragged out of the classroom by Xu Nuo.

Xia Xia followed to the door of the classroom, watched a group of people walking out, sighed faintly, and then seemed to suddenly think of something, took out the mobile phone in her jeans, held it in her hand and smiled brightly.

Zhu Yuan turned his head and glanced at the door of the classroom, and joked with a smile: "Zhang Qiming, that's fine, I'd love to have so many fans of you."

Zhang Qiming's expression was a little impatient, and he stood aside, keeping an unfamiliar distance from the other four people, and replied in a blunt voice: "Walk well, be careful of stumbling."

Zhu Yuan shrugged his shoulders, put his hands in his trouser pockets, and walked out with a swaying pace: "Okay, I will walk well and don't talk much. But promise, your salary for this winter vacation class is not low, right? Treat today?"

"Okay." Xu Nuo nodded, still serious.

"Let me please, I..."

As soon as Xu Nuo finished speaking, Zhou Qingming picked it up. Halfway through the conversation, he felt that the atmosphere had become a little strange, and his voice became hoarse again.

"Okay." Xu Nuo turned his head, glanced at her, smiled at her, and calmed her emotions and said, "It's just right, I haven't paid my salary yet, so please, it's the same."

Zhou Qingming blushed suddenly, and nodded desperately.

"What's your relationship?" Zhang Qiming's originally uneasy face became even uglier after seeing the communication between the two people. Such an abrupt and aggressive question was almost thrown out without thinking at all. .

Everyone froze in place, Zhou Qingming looked awkwardly at Xu Nuo, then at Zhang Qiming, not knowing how to speak.

Xu Nuo frowned, thought for a second, and took Zhou Qingming's hand: "She is my girlfriend."

Zhang Qiming's eyes widened in surprise, his expression was a little distorted, after struggling for a few seconds, he stared at the hands held by the two of them, and asked indiscriminately, "What about Yan Ruyi?"

Yan Ruyi said three words, Xu Nuo didn't say anything yet, Zhang Qiming regretted it first, but the news that Xu Nuo found a new girlfriend really broke him down a bit, a world where Yan Ruyi had already made trouble Flying dog jumps, and now comes another Zhou Qingming.

Xu Nuo lowered her eyes, and unconsciously squeezed Zhou Qingming's hand tightly. The surrounding air pressure seemed to drop by three points in an instant. She stared at Zhang Qiming for several seconds, then let out a chuckle, raised her eyes, and asked jokingly :

"Excuse me, what's the matter with you?"